Before Sharia Spoiled Everything

In a 1958 speech, Egyptian President Nasser describes to an audience the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood to force women to wear a hijab. Both he and the audience laugh at the thought of forcing millions of women to cover up. Today, most Egyptian women wear the hijab.

Mosul (Iraq), 1970. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

The Last Caliph of Islam, Abdülmecid II, pictured during his exile from the Republic of Turkey on the shores of a beach in Nice, France in the late 1930s with members of the House of Osman and various French painters. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

A 1972 cover of Pakistan’s leading monthly magazine, The Herald. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Saudi Arabia, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Pakistan, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Over the last decade, Turkey has invested substantial amounts in the growth of both governmental and nongovernmental organizations to further its Islamist agenda throughout Europe: foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/07/erd…

Turkish actress Gülşen Bubikoğlu, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Somalia, 1958. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Iraq, 1950s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Aden (Yemen), 1980s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Aden (Yemen), 1980s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Aden (Yemen), 1980s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Aden (Yemen), late 1970s. Aden was home to the first Arab Women’s Movement in the Arabian Peninsula. The first female protest against domestic violence took place in Aden in 1951. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Feminist march in Kabul (Afghanistan), 1980s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Damascus, 1980s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Pakistani feminists burning hijabs in Lahore, 1987. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

A school bus in Aleppo (Syria), 1960s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Iran, 1950s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Somalia, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything

Somalia, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything